POLICE AND CRIME PLAN PERFORMANCE REPORT st th 1 July to 30 September 2020 Introduction The Police and Crime Plan for South Yorkshire is published by the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC). It outlines his priorities for the area and how he will work with the police and partners to achieve them. The Police and Crime Plan 2017-2021 was renewed in 2019. The overall aim remains: For South Yorkshire to be a safe place in which to live, learn and work. The priorities in support of the aim for 2020/21 remain: Protecting Vulnerable People Tackling Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour Treating People Fairly whilst providing value for money for policing and crime services when working to deliver these priorities. This report aims to provide an overview of the progress of all policing and crime partners across South Yorkshire against achieving the priorities of the Plan. The report does not include everything being delivered. More information can be found on the PCC’s website www.southyorkshire-pcc.gov.uk. Disclaimer Much of the performance indicator data used in the graphs in this report is not yet fully audited and is subject to change as records are up dated and quality checks undertaken. Therefore, data is subject to change until published by the Office for National Statistics and cannot be reproduced 1 | P a g e without permission from the owner of the data. Police and Crime Plan Summary Dashboard Protecting Vulnerable People Measure 12 Months to September 2019 12 Months to September 2020 Trend* Recorded Domestic Abuse Crimes (1) 20,133 22,973 Domestic Abuse Crime arrest Rate (1) 46% 57% Recorded Sexual Offences (1) 4190 4211 % of crimes where victim is assessed as vulnerable (1) 29% 31% % of vulnerable victims satisfied with initial contact (1) 83% 86% Change not statistically significant Tackling Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour Measure 12 Months to September 2019 12 Months to September 2020 Trend* SYP Recorded level of Anti-Social Behaviour (1) 34,641 36,592 Recorded level of all crime (1) 145,046 140528 Jan 17- Dec 17 cohort Jan 18 – Dec 18 cohort Trend* Rate of proven re-offending (adults) (2) 30.7% 29.5% Rate of proven re-offending (youth) (2) 31.8% 28.2% 12 months to June 19 12 months to June 20 Serious crimes involving a knife or sharp instrument (3) 996 932 Treating People Fairly Measure 12 months to June 19 12 months to June 20 Comparison % of people saying police do a good/excellent job (7) 54.7% 49.7% Decrease not statistically significant Measure Apr 19 to Sept 19 Apr 20 to Sept 20 Trend* Number of referrals to Restorative Justice service (4) 212 283 Measure 12 Months to Sept 2019 12 Months to Sept 2020 Trend* Stop and Search conducted (5) 10481 19405 Providing Value For Money For Policing and Crime Services End of year forecast (Revenue - SYP) (6) £1.75m overspend End of year forecast (Capital - SYP) (6) Programme being revised due to Covid-19. Forecast to be confirmed. Year to Date Spend 3.1m Source : (1) SYP, (2) MoJ, (3) ONS, (4) Remedi, (5) Police.UK, (6) OPCC (7) ONS – Annual * Unless otherwise stated, the arrows denote the direction of travel only rather than any statistically significant increase/decrease 2 | P a g e COVID 19 This report has been written during the continued Government’s lockdown restrictions on the whole UK population as a result of the Covid 19 Coronavirus pandemic, although from July, restrictions started to be eased slightly. There continues to be wide ranging changes to the way of life for everyone and changes to the way business and organisations have to operate with the focus of the Police and Crime Commissioner’s (PCC) activity having to change for the duration of the emergency situation. Whilst the three priorities under the Police and Crime plan for 20/21 remain as: • Protecting vulnerable people • Tackling crime and anti-social behaviour • Treating people fairly the emergency situation created by the Coronavirus means that business is still not being conducted as usual. In order to respond to the emergency and fulfil his statutory responsibilities, the Commissioner’s continued focus has been: • Ensuring the Chief Constable has sufficient resources to respond to the Emergency • Ensuring, on behalf of the public, that the police respond in ways that are necessary, sufficient, proportionate and ethical (holding to account) • Facilitating effective partnership working among agencies and groups working in community safety, violence reduction and criminal justice • Commissioning and co-commissioning services, particularly for victims of crime, and providing grants for policing and anti-crime purposes In reality this has meant: Modified Governance meetings. Assurance and governance meetings have continued virtually in order to ensure the checks and balances are in place that the public expect to see, including Joint Independent Audit Committee and Independent Ethics Panel. The Independent Ethics Panel’s focus specific to Covid 19 has been to provide assurance, to the PCC and the public, on how the new legislatives powers are being used in South Yorkshire. Continuation of the Public Accountability Board (PAB) meetings virtually with updates from the Chief Constable on the police response to Covid 19, plus updates on the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) engagement with the public and partners Continued publication of public interest information from PAB on the OPCC website Regular meetings with the Minister of State for Crime, Policing and the Fire Service, Kit Malthouse, other Ministers from the Home Office and Ministry of Justice and senior government officials to ensure PCCs are provided up to date information Updates from the South Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum (LRF) provided to the PCC by South Yorkshire Police (SYP) Covid lead, ACC Hartley. The OPCC Engagement and Communications manager will also attend the LRF communications sub group 3 | P a g e COVID 19 SYP Gold, Silver and Bronze command structure to coordinate all aspects of the Force response to Covid 19 e.g. establishment of a coordination unit Business continuity plans in place and reviewed – inclusive of Commissioned Service providers to ensure continuity of service to victims, witnesses and offenders Arrangements to allow the Police and Crime Panel to continue to carry out its responsibilities The PCC chairing additional Local Criminal Justice Board meetings as considered necessary over and above those previously scheduled The PCC’s Commissioning Team has worked hard during this time and as a result have secured additional external funding of £1,741,021 much of it to provide extra resource for Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence support services across South Yorkshire. Throughout this period, the PCC has been writing and publishing a weekly blog. The blog aims to keep members of the public, partners and communities up to date with how he is carrying out his role during the coronavirus pandemic and also to think more widely around contemporary issues that have a bearing on policing. All of the blogs can be found on the PCC’s website, with the latest one here: https://southyorkshire-pcc.gov.uk/blogs/pcc-blog-33/ 4 | P a g e 1. Protecting Vulnerable People Within this priority, the focus for 2020/21 is: Helping victims of serious violence, domestic abuse, sexual offences, including children. Helping those who are victims and survivors of child sexual exploitation and child criminal exploitation, human trafficking and slavery. Helping those vulnerable to cyber and internet fraud. Mental Health – South Yorkshire Police (SYP) partnership working to help those in crisis to obtain the right help from the right service at the right time. Improving how the public contact the Police (including improved 101 services). This section of the report includes a look at data and performance indicators as well as information about the range of work going on aimed at protecting vulnerable people - details of which are included after the graphs. Source: South Yorkshire Police – unaudited data subject to change Source: South Yorkshire Police – Victim Satisfaction Survey. The percentage in Q2 2020/21 is higher than for the same period last year. This 91% of all victims in quarter 2 were satisfied with the initial contact they had with the may be as a result of more informed recording and assessment of vulnerability in police. This is not a statistically significant increase compared to Q1 but is a statistically line with SYP’s Vulnerability Assessment Framework. significant increase compared to the same period in 2019/20. 5 | P a g e 1. Protecting Vulnerable People Source: South Yorkshire Police – unaudited data subject to change Source: South Yorkshire Police – unaudited data subject to change Domestic abuse recorded crimes were higher in Q2 20/21 than in the same period 2019/20. SYP SYP’s continued focus on domestic abuse (DA), including the setting up of dedicated and the OPCC have been working hard during Pandemic to make sure victims are still able to DA teams, means that the proportion of Domestic Abuse Crimes where an arrest is report domestic abuse whilst being confined to their homes with their abusers, including a new made has increased, with the percentage of arrests during quarter 2 being higher than option of being able to report domestic abuse online. Increased reporting is positive in this during the same period in the previous year. respect. Source: South Yorkshire Police – unaudited data subject to change Source: ONS – Police Recorded Crime Following a decrease at the start of the year during the lockdown, recorded sexual Latest available data up to June 2020 shows South Yorkshire Police has the third offences in Q2 2020/21 are now at similar levels to those seen in the previous year.